Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.